Longtime conservative columnist Matt Lewis took a dim view of the budget deal that passed this week with a one-vote margin, lamenting it will explode the national debt to historic levels.
Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," the columnist and MSNBC contributor was asked by host Jonathan Lemire to weigh in on the bill that was barely approved by the GOP caucus with a bullying assist from Donald Trump.
"Gve us your sense as to what this bill actually is and what its future might be," host Lemire pressed his guest.
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"Yeah, look, it takes a lot of chutzpah to, you know, pass a bill that raises the deficit by trillions of dollars and, you know, call it conservative," Lewis began before dryly noting, "It seems like their definition of limited government is spending like a drunken sailor who just won the lottery, so it will be interesting to see."
"The House Freedom Caucus mostly went along with this, and we'll see if some of the, you know, deficit and budget hawks in the Senate do as well," he added.
"Let me say though, I am impressed with the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson," he remarked. "This is a guy who, I mean, this is like finding out the guy who volunteers to run the church potluck somehow rewrote the tax code. I mean, it's stunning to me what the what he has pulled off. But, of course, it's not Mike Johnson pulling it off –– it's Donald Trump and to me, that's what the big story here is."
He later pointed out, "At the end of the day, this is a party completely beholden to Donald Trump. I don't think he really cares that much about the details about Medicaid, about spending. I think he likes getting things done and having a deal and so this will happen."
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